Enhance your bird festival experience with the Bobolink Bird Festival Companion App. Easily navigate pre-purchased trips, schedule additional outings, access Zendesk support, and connect with fellow attendees via the integrated blog.
This product is a distributed application built and maintained by Westlinks Online specifically to support the planning, registration, and operation of bird festivals and similar multi-day events. The platform is designed to reduce operational risk, streamline volunteer and staff workflows, and provide organizers with real-time visibility into registrations, schedules, and on-site activity. We stand behind our products and provide ongoing maintenance, support, and iterative improvements based on real-world festival usage.
- Centralized management of bird festival programs and events
- Create and manage multi-day schedules with individual trips, talks, workshops, and social events
- Support for multiple festival programs over time with historical archiving
- Unique trip numbering and program-based event organization
- Public-facing registration system for attendees
- Configurable registration windows with open, active, and closed periods
- Support for free, paid, per-trip, and bundled registration options
- Attendee account management with self-service access
- Real-time capacity tracking for trips and events
- Waitlist management and controlled enrollment
- Leader and guide assignment for trips and events
- Leader trip counts and participation tracking
- Venue and location management including birding sites and meeting points
- Support for transportation logistics including self-drive and group transport
- Administrative tools for cloning events from prior festivals
- On-site registration and badge management tools
- On-demand badge editing and reprinting
- Integration with Stripe for secure online and on-site payments
- Support for cash, check, and card transactions where applicable
- Volunteer and staff access with role-based permissions
- Administrative dashboards for real-time operational visibility
- Email notifications for registrations, changes, and confirmations
- Integrated reporting for attendance, revenue, and participation
- Designed to operate reliably during live, on-site festival conditions
